Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
CARL SAGANScience is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
More Carl Sagan Quotes
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You have to know the past to understand the present.
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We can’t help it. Life looks for life.
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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.
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The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.
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The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
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Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.
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Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
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The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
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